The Wolfgang and Amadeus Automatic Photoelectric Telescopes: A "Kleine-Nacht-Musik" during the first five years of routine operation

Autor(en)
Thomas Granzer, Peter Reegen, Klaus Günter Strassmeier
Abstrakt

We present a summary of five years of continuous operation of the University of Vienna twin Automatic Photoelectric Telescopes (APTs) - Wolfgang and Amadeus. These two telescopes are part of the Fairborn Observatory facility located in the Sonoran desert close to Washington Camp in southern Arizona. The detection and distinction procedure between weather-induced data-quality loss and systematic data-quality loss turned out to be a crucial task. Therefore, special emphasis is laid on the data quality monitoring tools developed throughout the years. Furthermore, we summarize the scientific highlights from the first five years of operation. Œ Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2001.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
Journal
Astronomische Nachrichten
Band
322
Seiten
325-332
Anzahl der Seiten
8
ISSN
0004-6337
Publikationsdatum
2001
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103003 Astronomie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0c82b4ee-ab26-4af5-b34b-270ad4808a6a